Richard Todd
ActorRichard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd (11 June 1919 – 3 December 2009) was an Irish actor known for his leading man roles of the 1950s. He received a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Male, and an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor nomination for his performance as Corporal Lachlan MacLachlan in the 1949 film The Hasty Heart. His other notable roles include Jonathan Cooper in Stage Fright (1950), Wing Commander Guy Gibson in The Dam Busters (1955), Sir Walter Raleigh in The Virgin Queen (1955), and Major John Howard in The Longest Day (1962). He was previously a Captain in the British Army during the Second World War, fighting in the D-Day landings as a member of the 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion.
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FILMOGRAPHY
ACTOR60
No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich
1996
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
1992
Lord Roberts
Beautiful Lies
1992
H.G. Wells
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
Self (archive footage)
Olympus Force: The Key
1988
Lord Wisden
Jenny's War
1985
Gen. Benjamin Cutler
House of the Long Shadows
1983
Sam Allyson
Doctor Who: Kinda
1982
Sanders
Home Before Midnight
1979
Geoffrey Steele
The Big Sleep
1978
Commander Barker
No. 1 of the Secret Service
1977
Arthur Loveday
Um Homem e o Cinema
1976
Self (archive footage)
The Sky is Falling
1975
Terence
The Next Scream You Hear
1974
George Tulliver
Asylum
1972
Walter
Dorian Gray
1970
Basil Hallward
Subterfuge
1968
Col. Victor Redmayne
The Love-Ins
1967
Dr. Jonathan Barnett
Operation Crossbow
1965
Wing Cmdr. Kendall
Coast of Skeletons
1965
Harry Sanders
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
1965
Darrell
Death Drums Along the River
1963
Inspector Harry Sanders
The Very Edge
1963
Geoffrey Lawrence
The Boys
1962
Victor Webster
The Longest Day
1962
Maj. John Howard
The Long and the Short and the Tall
1961
Sgt. 'Mitch' Mitchem
The Hellions
1961
Sam Hargis
Don't Bother to Knock
1961
Bill Ferguson
Never Let Go
1960
John Cummings
Danger Within
1959
Lieutenant Colonel David Baird
Stars Meet in Moscow
1959
Self
Chase a Crooked Shadow
1958
Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.
Intent to Kill
1958
Dr. Bob McLaurin
The Naked Earth
1958
Danny
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
1957
Lieutenant-Commander John Simon Kerans
Saint Joan
1957
Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
D-Day the Sixth of June
1956
Lt. Col. John Wynter
Marie-Antoinette Queen of France
1956
Comte Axel von Fersen
The Dam Busters
1955
Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.
The Virgin Queen
1955
Sir Walter Raleigh
A Man Called Peter
1955
The Rev. Peter Marshall
The Secrets of the Bed
1954
Captain Davidson (segment "Billet de logement, Le")
The Sword and the Rose
1953
Charles Brandon
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
1953
Rob Roy MacGregor
- Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
1953
Heathcliff
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
1952
Robin Hood
Venetian Bird
1952
Edward Mercer
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
1952
the young man
- Elstree Story
Elstree Story
1952
Himself
The Riddle of Robin Hood
1952
Himself
Lightning Strikes Twice
1951
Richard Trevelyan
Flesh and Blood
1951
Charles Cameron/Charles Cameron Sutherland
Stage Fright
1950
Jonathan Cooper
Portrait of Clare
1950
Robert Hart
The Hasty Heart
1949
Cpl. Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan
For Them That Trespass
1949
Herbert Edward Logan
The Interrupted Journey
1949
John North
A Yank at Oxford
1938
Extra in Sporting Event (uncredited)
Good Morning, Boys!
1937
Extra in crowd scene (uncredited)
The Gap
1937
Orderly (uncredited)
